Thirty-One more APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Stocks, Artificial Intelligence, and Location. Featured today are APIs for LivePerson customer chat services and an API for creating and managing Alexa Skills. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.

Popular messaging platform Slack today announced the beta launch of Shared Channels, "a new kind of channel that connects two separate groups, creating a common space for both sides to make use of Slack’s communication features and platform integrations when working together."

The Nexmo SMS API lets you send and receive text messages around the world without having to worry about which carriers the recipients are subscribed to. This tutorial shows you how to use the Nexmo C# Client Library to send and receive SMS messages from your ASP.NET MVC web app.

The CallR Webhooks API allows you to subscribe to events that will push a JSON payload to your URL whenever the events occur. With webhooks, you receive a JSON payload when events occur on the CallR...